20180510 XXT How Anger and Patience Relate to Each Other with TRANSCRIPT

In the following short video recorded on May 5, 2018, during the retreat at Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Australia, Lama Zopa Rinpoche responds to a question about how to practice patience: In order to practice patience, we first must have a strong understanding of how harmful anger is, Rinpoche explains. If we don’t understand the danger of anger, then we won’t be persuaded to practice patience. We need to think about the negative karma that is created by anger. However when we are angry, we don’t care about karma and are capable of doing terrible actions. That is why we need to understand that this nonvirtue results in future suffering and causes so many problems. “What you have to remember is this, how the anger is so harmful, first you have to recognize that,” Rinpoche says. Then, quoting the great bodhisattva Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara, Rinpoche says, “‘For a thousand eons you made offerings to the Gone to Bliss Ones and made charity to other sentient beings, for a thou